Hmm, the way I read it, its Windows 10 on Arm, not Enterprise? I've been hoping somebody would port 10 Mobile to run on the Pi. Windows 10 on Arm might even be better, assuming progress is made. If you don't like Windows you don't like Windows. I have many many Pi's kicking around the place and would happily try out Windows on Arm on one of them. If its usable cool, if its not no big deal, I'll just swap out the SD card.
The reality is, how does Microsoft feel about this? It is their Intellectual property. I hope they get on board, but something tells me they likely won't. I hope they don't go all lawyers on him though. =(

alphanumeric wrote:
Hmm, the way I read it, its Windows 10 on Arm, not Enterprise? I've been hoping somebody would port 10 Mobile to run on the Pi. Windows 10 on Arm might even be better, assuming progress is made. If you don't like Windows you don't like Windows. I have many many Pi's kicking around the place and would happily try out Windows on Arm on one of them. If its usable cool, if its not no big deal, I'll just swap out the SD card.
The reality is, how does Microsoft feel about this? It is their Intellectual property. I hope they get on board, but something tells me they likely won't. I hope they don't go all lawyers on him though. =(

This is Windows 10 Enterprise as an ARM build (by Microsoft - you can find this build online). What he has done is added in the UEFI components, a few 'hackety' firmware drivers, and other perfectly-legal support code to make it run. This is not a Windows "remix" or something - just a bunch of underlying UEFI/driver stuff to make it run.

To put it simply, you saw that Windows 10 on Snapdragon stuff? It looks like this:

The UEFI implementation with patches is nearly done. In fact, to get Windows running properly on VideoCore, all that is needed is somebody to write the drivers. When the drivers are written, you pretty much have an implementation that could be as complete as the Qualcomm Snapdragon stuff. Right now, sadly, there are very few drivers so everything is quite limited. If there is somebody out there who knows Windows NT driver writing, he or she could probably do this...

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Why would anyone want to work for free to support the closed source OS of a multi-billion dollar corporation?

This makes me wonder what the status of the ARM port of ReactOS is. ReactOS being an open source Win32 clone that does run quite well on x86 systems.

Think about the possibility of running ported Win32 programs that developers just do not want to take the time to port to Linux. And it would also be possible to run much DOS and Win16 software with a WoW (Windows on Windows) subsystem that uses a CPU emulation, and an NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine) that uses the same CPU emulation.

While I am not a fan of Windows, it is enough to make a person really give the possibilities some thought.

Though it is still possible to figure out how to port DOSBox to bare metal, implement the needed configuration to boot into ReactOS x86 (or Windows 98SE, or even MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 2.11/386, for that mater MS-DOS 3.21 + Windows 1.03).

It would be interesting to see a Win32 based OS running on ARM, though it may be some time before that happens.

As it stands I am about to setup a new SD-Card with a new install of Raspbian, add DOSBox, RPCEmu, MiniVMac II, and Hatari, install ReactOS on DOSBox, RISC OS Select on RPCEmu, Macintosh System Software 7.1.1 on MiniVMac II, and FreeTOS + fVDI + MiNT + XaAES + TeraDesk on Hatari. Now if we had native ports of all these OS's on the Raspberry Pi that would be great .

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What is Windows 10 IoT Core?
It's not Windows as most people understand it. A fresh install of Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi doesn't boot to the familiar Windows desktop. Instead, Windows 10 IoT Core will show users a single full-screen Universal Windows app. The system will only display the interface of a single app at a time, although additional software can be run in the background. Apps are loaded onto the Pi from a Windows 10 desktop machine.
Source - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/wi ... d-to-know/

Let's be honest, Windows 10 has a hard time running on a multi-core PC with 4-8GB of ram and a 100GB hard drive (SSD is much better) You have almost no chance on a Raspberry Pi 3B+! There is a development version being run by some programmers, but it has awful driver support (It is ARM after all, not PC) no WiFi, and limited display. something may come of this in time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b1IxvKJeho

For anyone that has a My Visual Studio Subscription. If you go to the Windows 10 downloads, and select the UNK option for the Consumer Edition ISO you get "en_windows_10_consumer_edition_version_1803_updated_sep_2018_arm64_dvd_ce384648.iso". Which I believe is Windows 10 on Arm? Click the x86 x64 drop down and you'll see a UNK option. Just a FYI post.

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